Bellringer: Oct 24 In your notebook, describe a time when you were being pulled between two worlds.

What is it like to grow up between worlds? LEQ 2-How does Joanne Hyppolite control structure and literary devices to develop an argument in “Dyaspora”? What is it like to grow up between worlds?

Listen-Read-Discuss Today we are going to do something called Listen- Read-Discuss(LRD) to read a new piece of narrative- nonfiction. LRD is a quick way to experience a text in a classroom. It’s pretty simple. First, we listen about the text. Then, we read the text on our own. Finally, we have a class discussion about the text. Of course, we are also going to write at the end.

Background and Craft Listen!

Background A diaspora is a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area. The word can also refer to the movement of the population from its original homeland.

“Dyaspora” is a story of a Haitian girl growing up in the US

Haiti A country southeast of Cuba. Shares an island of Hispanola with Dominican Republic Has a long history of conflict. Europeans took control of the island and imported slaves The slaves successfully fought off several European powers The US even controlled Haiti during the early part of the US Has been marred by frequent coups and political instability Haiti ranked 145 of 182 countries in the 2010 United Nations Human Development Index, with 57.3% of the population being deprived in at least three of the HDI's poverty measures.[5]

Dyaspora

Brief Summary This piece is about a woman growing up as a Haitian- American. She talks about each of the specific places in her life and how it felt to live in each one. She uses a lot of French words that would have been used by her Haitian family. She talks about being part of a group, but struggling to fit into parts of American Culture She writes about how reading and writing are a way to understand others and to help them understand you.

Read! Silently, to yourself. You have 15 minutes. Feel free to annotate the text!

Discuss! To successfully understand what the author is doing, we need to take a look at some literature vocabulary. Organization Topic sentences Point-of View Word choice Tone

Discuss AND record! Whenever you are evaluating a text, it is important to record the information that is discussed. Like before, I will not be giving you a teacher-designed sheet to do this. You are going to make your own. Think about: What literary elements we are focusing on? What does evidence look like? How can we organize it for efficiency?

You may remember being taught types of organization Chronological Compare and Contrast Inductive Deductive Sequential Spatial Part 1: Organization

Organization That doesn’t mean that writers are bound to these types As we learned in the last lesson, most writing makes organizational decisions based on the author’s purpose, the intended audience, and the information that needs to be delivered. A fiction story is usually chronological Instructions are usually sequential The chapter from Freakonomics was inductive overall, but compare/contrast in each section.

Organization Organization is about looking at the information you have and thinking about the best order to give it to your audience. The paragraph is the basic unit of organization.

Topic Sentences How long is a paragraph?! Your paragraph and its length are determined by their topic sentence. A good topic sentence lets the reader know the content of the paragraph.

Let’s look back at the text! Underline the topic sentences of each paragraph! What is the organizational pattern you see here? Why might the author choose this pattern? Discuss this with your partner for 1 minute before we come together as a class.

Part 2: Point-of-View The method of narration There are three main types 1st person 3rd person 2nd person

1st person From the point of view of the author. “I destroyed all the noobs.” Good for letting you know the writer’s or main character’s true thoughts, and what it is like to be there. These games are called First Person Shooters for a reason

3rd person From the point of view of someone watching the events from afar. Limited-Don’t know everything Omniscient-Knows everything Good for showing numerous events in a text “He decided staying home and playing Mass Effect was a better use of his time”

Let’s look back at the text: 2nd person RARE! Uses the pronoun “you” “You are fighting a thousand bears, and you feel your strength failing you.” An example from Dyaspora: “Your house in Boston is your island As the only Haitian family on the hillside you grow up on…” AP 2: The question is...why use 2nd person? Discuss this with your elbow partner. Be prepared to explain to the class.

Part 3: Word Choice and Tone Works on a spectrum of positive and negative connotations Collective word choice creates tone “I don’t like flamingoes. They are scary.” “I detest flamingoes. They are terrifying” “He gave her the present.” “He tossed her the tattered present.”

Let’s look back at the text! Using the tone wheel, come up with a descriptive word that best describes each paragraph. Circle the words that contribute to your choice. Do you notice any shifts in tone between paragraphs? AP 3: How does the tone of each paragraph and the tonal shifts between those paragraphs help you understand about the author’s life? Discuss this with your partner for two minutes. Discuss as a class.

Discussion

LEQ 2-How does Joanne Hyppolite control structure and literary devices to develop an argument in “Dyaspora”? Answer the LEQ using all of the literature vocabulary: Organization Topic Sentence(s) Word Choice Tone Point-of-View